Whim Quotes

• The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

  James Boswell

  Whimsical, Pleasure, Known

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

  Jeff Lindsay

  People, Laughing, Logic

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.72, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

  Bell Hooks

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

  Caroline Knapp

  Solitude, Way, Breeding

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• Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Cheer, Writing, Spirit

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• A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

  Ayn Rand

  Desire, Doe, Care

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.13, Penguin

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• Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

  Duane Michals

  Fashion, Art, Two

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• Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Ambition, Independence, Survival

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• Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Birthday, Cute Life, Cells

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• You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

  Richard Roeper

  Golf, Finding Yourself, Six Months

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• If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sex, Angel, Animal

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• Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Needs, Elites

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• Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Criticism, Resentment

  'The Candidate' (1764) l. 57

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• Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

  Alain de Botton

  Mind, Body, Rhythm

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

  Annie Dillard

  Schedules, Chaos, Catching

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• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Henry Fielding

  Coquette, Coquetry, Affection

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Hands, Schedules

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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• Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

  Bill Watterson

  People, Choices, Principles

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• In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Diversity, Doubt, Mind

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• Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Silence, Suffering

  Ravi Zacharias (2008). “End of Reason”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

  Terry Goodkind

  Favors, Fancy, Way

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.481, Head of Zeus

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• All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Way, Universe

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Giving, Way, Companionship

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.139, Feral House

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• I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

  Ving Rhames

  Acting, English Teacher, Performing Arts

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• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Issues, Clothes

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.205

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